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Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More

Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART ONE Overview Introduction Elisabeth Prügl and Eileen Boris Sexual Divisions, Gender Constructions The Historical Meaning of Homework in Western Europe and the United States Eileen Boris ...
The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, ...

The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, ...

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Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues S. J. Kleinberg, Eileen Boris, Vicki Ruíz ... For Eileen Boris, the problem was which dwellings counted as part of the history of domestic architecture, though she successfully convinced her professors ...
Tough Boris

Tough Boris

Mem Fox

When a young boy sneaks onto the ship of Boris von der Borch, a mean, greedy old pirate, he discovers that Boris and his mates are not quite the way they appear. Reprint.
Policy, Discourse and Rhetoric: How New Labour Challenged ...

Policy, Discourse and Rhetoric: How New Labour Challenged ...

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Julia's research interests include international economics and its implications for education policies, economic inequalities, European economic integration, and transatlantic relations. Boris Vormann Boris Vormann Boris Vormann Boris ...
Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris ...

Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition - A Biography of Boris ...

Sonia Purnell

The first forensic account of a remarkable rise to fame and power, Just Boris unravels this most compelling of political enigmas and asks whether the Mayor who dreams of crossing the Thames to Downing Street has what it takes to be Prime ...
Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial ...

Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial ...

Eileen Boris

Homework has been vigorously debated by employers, trade unionists, male and female reformers, and government administrators. This book restores the voices of homeworking women to the century-long struggle over their labor.
Inventing the Modern American Family: Family Values and ...

Inventing the Modern American Family: Family Values and ...

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16 Eileen Boris and Christiane Eifert, for example, demonstrate in their article on gender relations in the two countries that, before World War II, German wives participated twice as much in the labor force as their American sisters—thus ...
Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity

Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity

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... dimension of this project lay in how French work scientists began to envision the potential uses of. ' The author thanks Nancy Green for suggesting the title of this essay, and Eileen Boris, Antoinette Burton, James Cronin, Rayna Rapp, and  ...
Eileen Duggan: Selected Poems

Eileen Duggan: Selected Poems

Eileen Duggan

INTRODUCTION I The place of Eileen Duggan in New Zealand poetry is at best an ambiguous one; in some (admittedly few) quarters she is still accorded a significant status, whilst for other readers she epitomises the worst excesses of the ...
Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of ...

Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of ...

Eileen Boris

This book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor—care, domestic, and sex work—and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of ...
Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the ...

Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the ...

Eileen Boris

It reveals why there is no adequate long-term care in America. Caring for America is much more than a history of social policy, however; it is also about a powerful contemporary social movement.
Boris's Big Bogey

Boris's Big Bogey

Paul Bright

When Boris sailed the Seven Season the pirate ship Black Rose, In sun or storm, he always kepton finger up his nose.
Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting ...

Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting ...

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Chronicles the life of the head of one of Moscow's gangster families, who financed the reelection of Boris Yeltsin and became one of his key advisors.
Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and ...

Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and ...

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... include Al-Tamimi Huda, Marg Allen, Tracey Banivanua Mar, Eileen Boris, Bridget Brereton, Barbara Brookes, Chilla Bulbeck, Antoinette Burton, Kit Candlin , Adrian Carton, Indrani Chatterjee, Nupur Chaudhuri, Jacklyn Cock, Ann Curthoys, ...
Andre Kostelanetz on Records and on the Air: A Discography ...

Andre Kostelanetz on Records and on the Air: A Discography ...

James H. North

Eileen Farrell William SCHUMAN: New England Triptych PUCCINI: Tosca: Vissi d'arte. Eileen Farrell Gustave CHARPENTIER: Louise: Depuis le jour. Eileen Farrell STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite Friday, 03i08tl95'i. KQED-TV, San Francisco.
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the ...

The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the ...

Corinne T. Field

Barkley Brown, Michele Mitchell, Rosemarie Zagarri, Anya Jabour, Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Leslie Paris, and Lakisha Michelle Simmons. Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Sally Schwager, Sally Roesch Wagner, Eileen Boris, and Cindy Aron ...
Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women ...

Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women ...

Cynthia Enloe

London: Palgrave, 2011. “Booklist Interviews Erin Duffy.” Library Love Fest, January 1, 2012, http:// harperlibrary.typepad.com/my_weblog/2012/01/booklist- interviews-erinduffy.html (accessed April 23, 2012). Boris, Eileen, and Lisa Levenstein.
Hooked Rugs: Encounters in American Modern Art, Craft and Design

Hooked Rugs: Encounters in American Modern Art, Craft and Design

Cynthia Fowler

Eileen Boris, “'Dreams of Brotherhood and Beauty': The Social Ideas of the Arts and Crafts Movement,” in “The Art that is Life”: The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1875—1920, Wendy Kaplan, ed. (Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1987), 208.
Dead on Delivery

Dead on Delivery

Eileen Rendahl

View our feature on Eileen Rendahl’s Dead of Delivery.Read Eileen Rendahl's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.
Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide

Women in Music: A Research and Information Guide

Karin Pendle

SOUTHERN, EILEEN 3138 Floyd, Jr., Samuel A. “Eileen Jackson Southern: Quiet Revolutionary.” In Josephine Wright, with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., eds. New Perspectives on Music: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern. Warren, MI: Harmonie ...
Family and Society in American History

Family and Society in American History

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Cheryl Robertson, "House and Home in the Arts and Crafts Era," in "The Art Thai Is Life": The Arts ami Crafts Movement in America, 1875-192o, ed. Wendy Kaplan ( New York, 1987), 35o- 27. Eileen Boris, "'Dreams of Brotherhood and Beauty': ...
Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works

Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works

Alexander Pushkin

James E. Falen's verse translation consists of Boris Godunov, A Scene from Faust, the four Little Tragedies and Rusalka. It is accompanied by a penetrating Introduction by Caryl Emerson on Russia's most cosmopolitan playwright.
The Art of Floral Arranging

The Art of Floral Arranging

Eileen Johnson

First Edition 1 1 10 09 08 07 5 4 3 2 1 Text © 2007 Eileen Johnson Photographs © 2007 Brie Williams All rights reserved. No part of ... learning from the master florists at Flowerschool New York / Eileen Johnson ; photographs by Brie Williams.
Entertaining in the French Style

Entertaining in the French Style

Eileen Johnson

First Edition 14 13 12 11 10 54321 Text © 2010 Eileen W. Johnson Photographs © 2010 Brie Williams All rights reserved. No part of ... Data Johnson, Eileen W. Entertaining in the French style / Eileen Johnson ; photographs by Brie Williams.
Doin' Arizona with Your Pooch!: Eileen's Directory of ...

Doin' Arizona with Your Pooch!: Eileen's Directory of ...

Eileen Barish

Eileen Barish has now written the definitive dog owner's guide to the Grand Canyon State. Doin' Arizona With Your Pooch gives readers a unique dog's-eye view of Arizona's pet-friendly hotels, resorts, forests, and outdoor activities.
Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin

Special Assignments: The Further Adventures of Erast Fandorin

Boris Akunin

Boris Akunin's well-loved, inimitable hero faces two very different adversaries: one, a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise, whose machinations send ripples spreading through the carefully maintained calm of Moscow in 1886.
Eileen

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh

"So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys.

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